CHAPTER XIV 
GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE 
Iw so far as the fruit-grower’s industry in British Columbia 
is capable of being influenced by the authorities, he has 
every reason to thank his stars. Not only the Dominion 
Department of Agriculture, but the Provincial Depart- 
ment too, are fully alive to his interests. Both bodies 
study his needs and strive even to anticipate his wants 
and his requirements. He does not find it necessary to 
be perpetually bombarding them with petitions, repeated 
ad nauseam, before he can procure even a hearing. Fre- 
quently he only becomes aware that a certain require- 
ment existed by finding one or the other department 
knocking at his door with the remedy or fulfilment in its 
hand. Special thanks are due to our own Provincial 
Department of Agriculture. No man could be more 
alive to the interests of the fruit industry than the present 
Deputy-Minister, Mr. W. E. Scott, in whose hands the 
care of this particular branch of agriculture in British 
Columbia is placed. He is fully alive to the great 
importance which the industry is destined to have on 
the development and fortunes of the province, and 
spares no pains to inform himself as to the efficacy of 
new methods, new improvements, and new devices. 
In fact, he is always on the alert to study any project 
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